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Re: Peculiar problem with kmail on AMD64 current



On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 06:51:19PM +0000, Dave Tyson wrote:
> So it would appear that a userland program which should be insulated 
> from the underlying hardware by the kernel is being affected by different H/W.

Can you show the output from 

	cpuctl identify 0

on both machines?

Some userland software detects cpu features at build time and hard codes
that decsion into the binaries. This is a bug, of course.

Martin


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